هشام بن عبد الملك

Overview

Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, one of the Umayyad caliphs. He was given the oath of allegiance while he was at al-Zaytuna, according to the report. ¹. In his caliphate he removed many of his governors in Medina and elsewhere. Nasr ibn Sayyar was given charge of Khurasan, and he had a connection with the affair of Zayd ibn Ali. ², ³.

The oath of allegiance

The messenger came to Hisham with the staff and the ring, and greeted him as caliph while he was at al-Zaytuna, according to the report. ¹.

Removing governors

Hisham removed Umar ibn Hubayra in the year 105, as printed at the head of the page. ¹ He removed Abd al-Wahid ibn Abd Allah al-Nadri from Medina in the year 106, as printed before the paragraph. ⁴ He removed Ibrahim ibn Hisham from Medina and appointed Khalid ibn Abd al-Malik ibn al-Harith over it, after the year 114 as printed. ⁵ He removed Khalid ibn Abd Allah from all his posts in the year 120, as printed at the head of the page. ⁶

Khurasan

Hisham appointed Nasr ibn Sayyar over Khurasan, and sent his letter of appointment with Abd al-Karim ibn Sulayt. ²

Learning and the pilgrimage

Hisham asked al-Qasim ibn Muhammad about his condition, according to the report. ⁷ He wrote to Abu al-Zinad asking him to write down for him the rules of the pilgrimage before he entered Medina, according to the report. ⁸

Zayd ibn Ali

Hisham wrote to the governor of Medina that he should send the Medinan delegation to him, and he did so. ⁹ It is said that he summoned Zayd from Medina on the basis of a letter from Yusuf ibn Umar, according to the report. ¹⁰ He wrote to Yusuf ibn Umar about the affair of Zayd ibn Ali, according to the report. ³

Notes for researchers

Most of the reports are given "according to the report"; al-Tabari transmits them from named transmitters, and they have not yet been compared with other sources.
The years mentioned are taken from the printed marginal notes as they stand, and have not been reconciled with the dates of the other pages.
What relates to Zayd ibn Ali (pages 398 and 410) should be read against the scan before it is relied on, because the order of events there is unclear in the OCR.
The references are to the page number of the scan, and reports with OCR noise have been left out.

Sources

Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk — al-Tabari, part two (Maktabat Khayyat, Beirut) , scan 195

Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk — al-Tabari, part two (Maktabat Khayyat, Beirut) , scan 388

Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk — al-Tabari, part two (Maktabat Khayyat, Beirut) , scan 410

Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk — al-Tabari, part two (Maktabat Khayyat, Beirut) , scan 199

Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk — al-Tabari, part two (Maktabat Khayyat, Beirut) , scan 289

Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk — al-Tabari, part two (Maktabat Khayyat, Beirut) , scan 369

Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk — al-Tabari, part two (Maktabat Khayyat, Beirut) , scan 200

Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk — al-Tabari, part two (Maktabat Khayyat, Beirut) , scan 210

Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk — al-Tabari, part two (Maktabat Khayyat, Beirut) , scan 396

Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk — al-Tabari, part two (Maktabat Khayyat, Beirut) , scan 398

Muhammad Qabbani, The Umayyad State from Birth to Fall (Damascus: Dar Wahy al-Qalam, 2006)

Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk — al-Tabari (ed. Abu al-Fadl Ibrahim)

Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi

The Umayyad State: Factors of Prosperity and Consequences of Collapse — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi (Part Two, 2005)

Lectures on the History of the Islamic Peoples: The Umayyad State — al-Khudari

The Umayyad State — Bakr Muhammad Ibrahim Bakr (1st ed., Markaz al-Raya lil-Nashr wal-I'lam, Cairo 2002)

The Khazars

The Khazars in al-Baladhuri are the people beyond the Caucasus whose great king bears the title Khaqan; Salman ibn Rabi'a warred on them until slain at Balanjar, and they surged across the Rass in al-Jarrah's day until he met and fell fighting them near Ardabil; when their great king learned the numbers Marwan ibn Muhammad trod into his lands it filled him with dread, and he sent summoning him to Islam or war — Marwan answering 'I accept Islam', whereupon the Khaqan showed forth Islam, Marwan compounding with him confirming his kingdom, and settled a body of them between al-Samur and al-Shabiran in the Lakz plain; and Yazid ibn Asid married into their king's house at al-Mansur's command, the Khaqan's daughter bearing him a son who died while she died in her lying-in.